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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicModi govt 2019

Topic: Modi govt 2019

Pratap Sarangi — the new entrant in Modi govt who stands out for his simplicity

BJP leader Pratap Sarangi continues to live in a mud and bamboo house & rides a bicycle to most places.

Modi sticks with Harsimrat Kaur Badal, picks her over husband Sukhbir

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, food processing minister in the previous Modi govt, is one of only two Akali MPs in Lok Sabha this time.

BJP leader JP Nadda likely to replace Amit Shah as BJP president

Nadda enjoys the confidence of the party's top brass and was left out of PM Modi's new council of ministers.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the lone Muslim face in Modi’s new govt

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was the Minority Affairs Minister in the previous Modi government and is credited with major reforms in the Haj policy.

Many fresh faces in Modi govt as state BJP leaders get rewarded with ministerial berths

While only two state leaders — ex-Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal & Karnataka’s Pralhad Joshi — will be cabinet ministers, numerous others have been made MoS.

New Modi govt — Amit Shah, Jaishankar in, Sushma, Maneka & Rathore out

A total of 58 ministers, including PM Modi, took oath late Thursday evening in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Sworn into new council of ministers, Sanjeev Balyan still under Muzaffarnagar riots shadow

The 46-year-old lawmaker has denied his involvement in the riots and has claimed that he has been booked in a false case.

Youngest cabinet minister in 2014, Smriti Irani gets a place again in second Modi govt

Smriti Irani was shifted out of the HRD Ministry to Textiles after a two-year tenure replete with controversies during PM Modi's first term.

Full list of ministers in the Modi govt in order of their oath-taking

The list of 58 ministers who took oath to form the second Modi government.

Maneka Gandhi named pro-tem Speaker, son Varun Gandhi kept out of new Modi govt

Maneka Gandhi, who was WCD minister, frequently locked horns with BJP brass on issues such as triple talaq, female genital mutilation and animal rights.

On Camera

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.